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Friday, January 5, 2024

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

 I've been working on "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". It's not your typical banjo tune so it's been hard to get the fingering right, but it's coming along. Here it is with lots of mistakes throughout but if I waited until I had it perfectly, I'd probably never post it.



Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Soldiers Joy

 Here is Soldier's Joy.  Note that for this tune the banjo is Tuned G-C-G-B-D and a capo at the second fret.



Soldiers Joy (in a new window).


Link to Tab (PDF File).

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

48th Annual Fathers Day Festival at Grass Valley - 2023.

 I did some video recording at the festival and stitched them together into this video.  It's about 38 minutes long and has songs from several different performers.


Grass Valley 2023 -- Click for Video.

Grass Valley 2023 -- Click for Video.

Monday, May 22, 2023

Lonesome Fiddle Blues

 This is Lonesome Fiddle Blues.  Key of Dm.



This song is in the key of Dm.  The song's first part (A part) is played twice then the second part (B part) is played once and ends with a second pass through the A part (A-A-B-A).  Chord progression for the A part is: Dm, C, Dm, C, A, Dm.  Chord progression for the B part is: G, D, E, A.


Here's a link to the same video on my Facebook page.